Friday, March 7, 2014.“Do American Students Need Global Shaksepeares?” Part of Practicing the Future of Shakespeare Studies. Conference Organized by the Columbia University Seminar on Shakespeare. Seminar Room 1, Second Floor. The Faculty House, Columbia University. 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027.

May 2-3, 2013: “Innocents Abroad: Sonallah Ibrahim and Muhammad Malas in Moscow.” At “Midans of the Self,” a colloquium on Sonallah Ibrahim organized by Elliott Colla and the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University, DC.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4:30pm, Anthro Department, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Hamlet on the Barricades: Shakespeare and Arab Revolutions
Tisch Library 304
Part of a series on “Degrees of Belonging”

February 21, 2012, 12:15-1:15pm, at Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Workshop on early Arabic Hamlet translation as part of “Translating the Canon” event, Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies

December 15, 4pm at NYU Abu Dhabi conference on World Literature and Translation. Panel on “Tragedy and Translation” (i.e. Hamlet and Oedipus!) with Philip Kennedy and Peter Meineck.

Lecture series at universities in Cairo, co-organized by the respective departments with the Arabic Theatre Working Group of IFTR under the umbrella title: “Hamlet on the Barricades: Shakespeare in ُEgyptian Political Theatre.” These are all 45-minute talks followed by discussion, of which about 20 minutes are common to all the talks, and the last half focuses on a different case study each time.

Special seminar featuring adapter/director Hani Afifiand Mohammad Fahim:Hani Afifi’s I Am Hamlet: The Shakespeare Tradition Comes to Cafe Cilantro.YouTube video (kindly filmed by Nadine Tawdi) is here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=C20ACB9A8D81640A Part 1 is the intro by Prof. Lobna Ismail. My talk is mostly in English, the discussion with Hani and Mohammad is mostly in Arabic, and the Q&A is mixed

Monday, November 21, 1-2pm at American University in Cairo, New Cairo, English and Comparative Literature department. Organized by the AUC Literature Club:Hamlet on the Barricades: Global Shakespeares, Arab Dreams. In the picture below, the image on the leftis from Tahrir; some students left after the talk to go precisely there. (Some photos, mostly of the excellent Literature Club head Mohga Hassib, here; video of the talk should be coming online somewhere.)

Tuesday, November 15, 12-5pmWorkshop for theatre students at National Center for Theatre, Film, and Folk Arts (Hassan Sabry Street, Zamalek): “Arab Theatre Between Local Contexts and Global Audiences: Shakespeare as a Case Study” المسرح المصري بين السياقات المحلية والجماهير العالمية: شكسبير نموذجاً Not many of my original goals were realized, but the students were really sharp, and it was very thought-provoking and enjoyable exercise in cross-expectational communication in its own right!